Heavenly Inquisition Sword Chapter 600 Discussion

Surprised this doesn't have any reviews, I picked up this novel after noticing the manhua was extremely slow paced (I believe S2 is around chapter 70 of the novel), but the novel's pacing wasn't much better.

The overall plot of the novel is great, but the story telling is extremely poorly executed. The novel is filled with monotonous filler with interesting events in the story being short lived. Extremely important events/developments are somehow reduced to a few paragraphs, with almost zero emphasis of how it should have affected our MC. I honestly don't know what our author is trying to focus on in this story.

Character Development - MC somehow has minimal character development, his dialog still comes across as childish. Any argument he gets into, he seems to turn into a 5 year-old throwing a tantrum, but of course he will win because he's OP. Things that should accelerate his growth as a human being seem to have minimal impact.Spoiler

He goes to a non-partisan shaman school, somehow he doesn't get smarter nor more mature. He get's married, still calls his wife "sister". He just never seems to mature because in the Murim might = Right.

[collapse]Honestly extra's and side characters have more interesting character development in a few chapters than MC has in over 600.

Murim/Martial Arts: I don't really see this as a martial arts novel even though it's supposed to be. Martial arts aren't really explained, training is skipped over. There won't be any training arcs involving inner ki, nor martial art techniques being systematically passed down through schools. Most techniques just somehow happen, or they just somehow happen through some sort of epiphany. If you're into martial arts novels this isn't it.

Romance: At least up to this point there is no harem (thank god), but the romance is kind of cringe and feels extremely wrong. Spoiler

He of course marries the girl from the Namgung Clan, but it doesn't seem to be a natural romance. He still call's her "sister" after marriage, their romance continues to be the mom offering advice to her son that lacks empathy and inductive reasoning.

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Action: The MC is way too neutral in the wrong ways for this to be an exciting action murim novel. Spoiler

His father's corpse is desecrated - no action. His Wife's family is massacred by the famous cult - no action. His wife was almost killed by the famous cult - he releases the cult members without killing them. His wife is sacrificed by the famous cult - no retribution, no cult members die, he's able to have a peaceful conversation with cult leader. Whereas he travels with a merchant family, the family treats him kindly and with respect. He has an argument with the daughter of the merchant family, he then proceeds to poke and argue with the daughter until the family intervenes. He pokes more-->Family retaliates-->Subdues family-->Resulting in a chain of events where the entire family gets massacred and he feels no guilt. Mind you the MC "hates killing people".

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Dropped this novel after the 2nd arc, I just can't read another 300 chapters of pointless character interactions that have zero effect on the overall plot.